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Lucian's Library 5
Feel free to suggest never written books you wish you could read.
#The Sandman#The Dreaming#Sam Vimes#Terry Pratchett#Discworld#Nikolai Gogol#Dead Souls#мёртвые души часть#Iain M. Banks#Fanfic#Rosemary Edghill#Barry Hughart#Stieg Larsson#JRR Tolkein#Sylvia Plath#Sappho#Dorothy Sayers#Andre Norton#Mercedes Lackey
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Ruana Rulane with her magic sword in single combat vs the dragon (Janet Aulisio from eluki bes shahar’s story “The Ever-After” in Dragon 146, June 1989)
#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#Janet Aulisio#dragon#eluki bes shahar#Rosemary Edghill#woman warrior#dnd#Dragon magazine#The Ever-After#fantasy#Dungeons and Dragons#TSR
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I love this duology
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So I hope it's all right to ask you a question about Lackey's books. Do I remember correctly your url comes from her Bard series and the first book in it, 'Knight of Ghosts and Shadows' was one of my favorites back when I was a teen. Just recently I discovered that there is more books in this universe, read the second volume and liked it, and now I'm struggling to get through book no 3. Anyways, my question is: have you read the entire series and would recommend getting through this book? cont.
part 2. Because so far I'm... disappointed with the direction ML took book 3. Wikipedia tells me the series was renewed after a longer pause so she might have just changed her mind but for me it kinda made me loose the wonder of the first book.
My username does indeed come from the series! (My friend @stellawind a few years ago gave me a copy of the Bedlam's Bard omnibus signed by ML and inscribed "To Bedlamsbard" and I may have cried.)
So, the back...two-thirds or so of the series, from Beyond World's End to Music to my Sorrow, co-written with Rosemary Edghill, are so different from the first couple of books (A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows and Summoned to Tourney, both cowritten with Ellen Guon) that they might as well be different series, in the same way that the Diana Tregarde and SERRated Edge books are both technically set in the same universe but don't have all that much to do with the Bedlam's Bard books. I actually started with Beyond World's End and the parts of the series that are set in NYC and didn't read the first two until last year (which was a wildly disconcerting experience, since I read the others as they came out in the early '00s), so from my perspective, the two California-set ones are the ones that are really discrepant. I really like them, but they are very different from the first two books and don't share all that much in common (as well as being set ten years later, in the '00s vs. the '90s).
I think it may also depend which third book you're reading, because they came out in a very weird order -- there's a prequel that came out after the first two books (that I actually haven't read) called Bedlam Boyz (written solely by Ellen Guon and not cowritten with Lackey), so I don't know if that's the third book you're reading or if it's Beyond World's End. The NYC-set books are about Eric; there's some shared cast from the California-set books, but most of the characters are new. They're very early '00s urban fantasy in tone in a way that can be a little discrepant now in the '20s. I know there's some effort to integrate the Diana Tregarde worldbuilding (with the existence of Guardians and Guardian House, but no character crossover) and the SERRated Edge books (some character and setting crossover). (For the record, I also didn't read the Diana Tregarde or SERRated Edge books until last year, so the references to those in the BB books I didn't pick up until then and then it made a whole lot more sense.) For me it's partially the difference between '00s urban fantasy and '90s urban fantasy, which is something I can identify but can't really put a finger on; the California-set ones are very '90s and the NYC-set ones are very '00s.
I realize this is not a particularly helpful response -- it's a weird series, tbh, especially with the nearly eight year gap between Summoned to Tourney and Beyond World's End. (This seemed to happen a lot in the early '00s -- Barbara Hambly also returned to a couple of her '80s/'90s series in the early '00s after a multi-year pause.)
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Hellflower (Hellflower, volume 1) by Rosemary Edghill
A star-faring barbarian woman and her AI against the universe! Or at least, the government and criminal organizations.
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Pink stack (and a little bit of purple) 💓📚
I wasn’t tagged sadly but that’s okay I really wanted to do this too. I saw people posting pictures of their cool stacks I just had to too lol
💞 the cup of morning shadows by rosemary edghill
💕 red, white and royal blue by Casey McQuiston
💗 one last stop by Casey McQuiston
💖 queerly beloved by Susie dumond
💘 girl in pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
💞 it ends with us by Colleen Hoover
💝 heartstopper (vol 1) by Alice Oseman
🎀 epic athletes Serena Williams by Dan Wetzel
🌸 finding perfect by Colleen Hoover
👄 does my body offend you by Mayra Cuevas and marie marquardt
💜 act cool by tobly mcsmith
🔮 the darkness outside us by Eliot schrefer
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The next story is “Wooden Horses” by Rosemary Edghill. This one is a basic adventure story about an idealistic prop/set designer deciding to rescue slave miner children in pits just outside of Valdemar’s borders. Theatrical shenanigans ensue. Fairly decent story, even if it’s shallower than a shot glass. But then not every story has to be deep. Sometimes it’s nice to have a story just say “Slavery bad. Let’s humiliate the slavers and rescue the slaves.”
...Or maybe I've seen too many anime who couldn't manage to say that.
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a long, long kiss
– a kiss of youth and love. (Oh, Byron, you are so dreamy.)
(originally posted in 2010 on annakatherine.com, and reposted in 2013 on the Anna Katherine co-tumblr)
I often think that the kiss, rather than the sex scene, is the primary romantic force of the romance novel. For me, a sex scene is emotional, sure, but for the most part shows up as titillation for the reader. The kiss, though, is where the love comes from. A kiss can tell you a lot about how two characters feel for one another, how they approach this strange new thing between them.
And there’s nothing quite like kissing someone for the first time — the leading up to it, the uncertainty, the raw delight and aching tension in the “what if” and the “when.” If a book just brushes past the first kiss to get to something ostensibly more sexy… well, it just makes my little heart break a bit. That there is a missed opportunity to make your readers really feel the investment your characters are putting into this thing.
Here are some examples of my favorite kinds of kisses:
I’m a sucker for the slow approach. I mean really slow. Sam and Jill’s kiss in Gilliam’s Brazil? Fantastic. And my shame when it comes to loving the kiss-before-the-reveal in the 1995 Sabrina? Epic. If it takes two people five minutes just to close the distance, I am weeping with joy by the end of it. This works better on-screen than in text, I think.
The unexpected kiss. Yes, this is somewhat in contrast with the above. I first discovered my love of this many years ago in Rosemary Edghill’s Turkish Delight, when the female lead is ranting about something (perhaps English weather?) on the back of a horse, and immediately following the end of an impassioned speech from her, the next line reads, “He kissed her.” This works absolutely best in text, though on-screen is no slouch.
The kiss everyone is pretending means something else. My absolute favorite example of that right now is from Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, when Bob and Charlotte (both married) are on the elevator in their hotel, returning to their separate rooms, and they’re both pretending that wanting to touch, wanting to be together, isn’t why they’re kissing goodnight — even though they both know it is. (4:10 in this fanvid shows a little bit of what I mean.) It’s awkward, it’s a little bit wrong, and it’s fooling no one, but you can feel every second of it on your skin.
Kissing as seduction. This would seem pretty straightforward, but think about it — usually you get stuff like “witty conversation”, “deep spiritual connection”, “shared history”, or, you know, “mutual feelings” as the way to get characters to fall in love. And those are all great, don’t get me wrong. But sometimes, I just want there to be kissing. Kissing for bad reasons, like bets, and kissing for no reason, like an empty terrace and boredom. Kissing because someone’s there, and the character just really wants to kiss someone. Basically, I want all the characters to be wearing the shirt described here when the book starts. And then… it becomes something more. Maybe it’s a really good kiss. Maybe it’s all a lot less boring than everyone thought it was going to be. Maybe it was an awful kiss, and everyone backs away and says, “Whoa, what? What happened there?” — and has to think about what they’re doing. Mary Jo Putney’s Thunder and Roses has kissing thrown in to shake up a bet; the heroine just wants to get through it without embarrassing herself, and the hero just wants to see what happens if he messes with her. That entire book (and a lot of Putney’s works, come to think of it) basically becomes an ode to “kissing is awesome”.
Finally, the memory of kissing. It’s not a kiss that happens onscreen — it’s the kiss that happened years ago that no one can forget. The kiss that’s been built up and worried over and made huge (sometimes even when it shouldn’t be) — the kiss that dulls every kiss after it, because nothing can compare. With movies and television, I like little sudden flash-cuts of hotness in the middle of mundane activity. With fiction, though, I like a good solid wallow. I want every detail, and then I want to know exactly what made this kiss the one that’s stuck. Everything builds from that. Yum.
So: Kisses! Those are my favorites — what are yours?
#katherine crighton#writing#random advice#kissing#is the real feelings disease#(or so A Softer World has taught me)
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Darktraders by Eluki Bes Shahar (Rosemary Edghill), cover by Nicholas Jainschigg (1992)
Author eluki bes shahar writes now as (and has changed her name to) Rosemary Edghill. Nicholas (Nick) Jainschigg was prolific magazine and book cover artist in the 1980s and 1990s before moving on to fine art and teaching.
#1990s#nicholas jainschigg#nick jainschigg#eluki bes shahar#rosemary edghill#DAW books#science fiction#paperback#vintage#book
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Tag Game
tagged by @usearki, @impet0n, and @unfriendlyamazon. Thanks! 💜
rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know/catch up with
Last movie at home: The Mummy (1999), the single greatest piece of cinema, no one can change my mind
Favorite color: purple, if you couldn’t tell from the color scheme of my blog
Last song: Good News by K.Flay
Sweet, savory, or spicy: depends on the mood, but either sweet or savory. Never spicy. I am weak and cannot take the heat.
Currently reading: I’m supposed to be reading The Shadow of Albion by Andre Norton & Rosemary Edghill. I was thinking about it recently and realized it was only going to get more out of print as time passed, so I managed to grab used copies of the series (even if it’ll forever be incomplete 😭). But.... I put it down several weeks ago and haven’t gone back to it. I should.
Currently working on: Lure smut and several pieces for JouKai Week. Also supposed to be working on a discord bot for myself, but I ran into the need to text parse and ughhhhhhh regex dun wanna.
Tagging (no pressure!): definitely not getting up to 9 people without multi-tagging @heyholmesletsgo, @emblematik, @kxotickat, @inamax, @superubersteffy, @setoxjoey, and whoever else wants to do this
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Some spooky-ish/atmospheric books I’d like to read for October:
The Dare and Her Soul to Take - Harley Laroux
Ensnared - Tiffany Roberts
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Trick and Treat - Shae Sanders
Witch Please and Bitterburn - Ann Aguirre
His Beauty - Jack Harbon
Some books I’ve read and like:
Met by Moonlight - Rosemary Edghill
Mating the Huntress - Talia Hibbert
A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor - Kathryn Moon
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones
The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay
Survivor Song - Paul Tremblay
Ring Shout - P. Djèlí Clark
Killadelphia Vols. 1 & 2 - Rodney Barnes
A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson
Bitter Root Vols. 1 & 2 - David F. Walker
If anyone is interested in a black author-centered readathon check out this video about Blackoweenathon and this book rec list.
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hi!! sorry for the random message but I saw the quote you posted over at the DW endings comm ("Sometimes our ghosts are the only things we can keep.") – could you tell me where this is from? might want to use it for something and just making sure I attribute it correctly if so. thank youuu 💖
Hi, thanks for asking. 😊 It's from the story 'Burden of Guilt' from the short story collection 'Failure of Moonlight' by Rosemary Edghill (urban fantasy). She's a good author and sometimes her 'last lines' really stay with me. Thanks again.
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Books by Women
#Jacqueline Rayner#Louise Rennison#Sheri Reynolds#Anne Rice#Tamora Pierce#Marcella Pixley#Carol Plum-Ucci#Beatrix Potter#Mitali Perkins#Meredith Anne Pierce#Edith Pattou#mary pope osborne#Kaori Ozaki#Peggy Parish#Katherine Paterson#nnedi okorafor#Phyllis Reynolds Naylor#Clare Turlay Newberry#Andre Norton#Rosemary Edghill#Naomi Novik#Shirley Rousseau Murphy#hisaya nakajo#Yoshiki Nakamura#Donna Jo Napoli#Margaret Moore#silvia moreno garcia
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Urban fantasy prompt: maybe a reversal of the 'ordinary person falls into a magical world' trope where a witch's apprentice falls into our world and has to figure out how things work?
One of my very favorite books, Rosemary Edghill’s The Sword of Maiden’s Tears, has a premise like this! It’s been out of print for a while so you’d have to find it online or stumble across it in a library, but it’s a really great read.I might still write something along these lines, just for fun :3
#little known fact: Rosemary Edghill is a pen name and the author's real name is Eluki Bes Sahar#bizarrekitten
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Welcome to my nonsense.
Get to know me game! I was tagged by the delightful being that is @jaffefuneralhomes
TOP 4 SHIPS
You know, I’m not much of a shipper but the clear lead is, of course, Aziraphale/Crowley
I really want Briar to fall in love with Tris and vice versa since I’m not holding my breath for that to be canon ever lmao
Hmm, Beau/Yasha is pretty sweet, sad barbarian is sad
oh, let’s get esoteric and go for Glenda/Nutt kicking butt in Uberwald.
LAST SONG: Current fave is Home (ft WALK THE MOON) by morgxn I listen to a lot of music while I’m writing so this is an unfair question lmao
LAST MOVIE: I haven’t seen any in a long time but funnily enough I rewatched Spiderverse recently. Such a good movie.
READING: Recently (Re)Read: The Warslayer by Rosemary Edghill
TBR: Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan
Currently open on my ereader: The Secret Garden, The Princess Bride, Good Omens Script Book (all for references for Ineffable Bastards lmao),
Bookmarked on their shelves: also Good Omens, the Good Omens TV Companion (lol yes, I’m a dork), Equal Rites, Small Gods, Eric, Sourcery, Unseen Academicals among others
FOOD CRAVING?: oh pizza and wings, hell yeah
Tag, you’re it! Feel free to tag me is you decide to play!
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